Results 1,041-1,060 of 26,842 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Public Investment Projects (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is ideology.
- Fiscal Policy (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Print a few punts up in Sandyford.
- Public Service Pay (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome Deputy Keating's question. He is pointing to an important issue - the obscene salaries of many people in the top echelons of the civil and public service, who are paid with public money. I do not know if he agrees with me when I suggest his proposal could be extended to cover the obscene salaries at the top of the corporate and private sectors. The Minister and the Government...
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an outrage that a 65 year old woman, Teresa Treacy, has been languishing in jail for several weeks because of the ESB's bullying and determination to run overhead power transmission lines through a farm and forest land that she has nurtured and given much of her life to developing. All she is asking, as she has made clear to the ESB for several years, is that the lines be placed...
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To add to what Deputy Higgins said, I cannot believe the Minister of State is hiding behind legal waffle. This is a fully publicly owned company under the aegis of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte. Consequently, he can intervene and tell the ESB to put the cable underground. It is as simple as that.
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course he can.
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is typical. It is a publicly owned company. Who else runs it?
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is just nonsense.
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State is trying to wash her hands of it, like everything else. The Minister should intervene and tell the ESB to put underground these cables. It is as simple as that. Incidentally, the suggestion that Members were told by Mountjoy Prison that they were obliged to submit anything in writing is not true. The deputy governor, John Quinn, told me he had contacted the...
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The ESB can commit to her-----
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that it will not rampage over her land.
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course it can.
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we share time?
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order-----
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the last thing I want.
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree. On the point of order, it is news to us that we could not share time because normally-----
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Clearly, it was not passed on to anybody because the other parties in Opposition are also-----
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I finish my point? First, it has not been passed on to us and we were not aware of it. The normal procedure for these debates is that it is stated that main spokespersons will make statements and that they can share time. That is what normally goes into the order.
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: At what point do we shout that the emperor has no clothes? The European empire that is the troika of the EU, the ECB and the IMF, has no clothes, or to put it more accurately, it has not got a clue. Everything it has done over the past two years and everything it has dictated, which it claimed would improve the situation, has made the situation worse. That is blatantly obvious for...
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There would have been another few bob gambled.